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Before getting to the things that Bernard-Henri Lévy does well in American Vertigo, his entertaining and insightful account of how, last year, to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville - the aristocratic French author renowned for his perceptive and enduring classic, Democracy in America - the U.S. monthly magazine Atlantic commissioned Lévy, who is perhaps the world's most famous living celebrity-intellectual, to retrace the steps of De Tocqueville's 1831-32 ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single...
Diagnosed with acute melancholia and a guilt complex, detective John Ferguson, in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo, is advised by his girlfriend to turn to the restorative power of music. "Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus," says Madge. "I had a long talk with a lady in musical therapy, Johnnie, and she says Mozart is the boy for you. A broom that sweeps the cobwebs away." In its 50th year, Opera Australia is hoping Mozart will be the boy for it. While its prognosis is better than Johnnie's, the country's flagship company has been gathering a few cobwebs lately. Since...
...U2/Mary J. Blige Performance The old pros opened with Vertigo, a showcase for The Edge?s amazingly clean guitar playing. Then Mary J. Blige stalked onto the stage looking, as always, as if someone just stole her car. Bono wisely backed away and let Mary go on about her enduring campaign of melody obliteration. She didn?t sing a single note that was originally in One, but her gospel take on the ol? chestnut (first performed on the telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims) was still moving...
...obviously depend on being both. After the disappointment in Ottawa, Bono spent four days in Acapulco with absolutely nothing important to do and returned to the road a new man. "I'm like a camel. I store up sleep in my hump," he says. U2's never-ending Vertigo tour has come to Boston, and from his palatial suite he has the panorama of a city blanketed in snow and capped by an endless blue sky. After a quick traipse through Boston Common, it's time to go to work...
...past few years, one to give Frank Gehry ideas. A sparkling enigma, it simultaneously cuts a sharp figure and demurely withdraws behind a camouflaged surface. Behind its blunt façade, glass-walled wedges of garden emerge inside. Herzog likes to compare it all to Kim Novak in Hitchcock's Vertigo, with her cool surface and her plunging secrets...